I have (had?) the following large movie file:
[indent]Filename: alaska.avi
Path: J:\media\2004\alaskaCruise
Size: 13,928,792,064
State: Excellent
Creation time: 9/8/2007 15:57
Last modification time: 7/20/2004 23:28
Last access time: 11/26/2007 08:37
Comment: No overwritten clusters detected.
3400584 cluster(s) allocated at offset 38317930
[/indent]
Recuva found it during a deep scan of my external USB hard drive. I think the drive was accidentally quick formatted (that's just a guess though). When I try to recover the big file to another drive, Recuva writes out a file that's exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes) and stops. I have one other large file, and I get the same results. Exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes), no more. The source hard drive (the one I'm recovering from) is NTFS, 465GB, cluster size: 4096, file record size: 1024. The target hard drive (the one I'm recovering to) is FAT32 and has plenty of space. I had excellent results recovering everything else on the drive under 4GB in size... all 32,000+ files! So I'd like to believe/hope my big movie is still intact and I'm just hitting some simple issue. Any ideas?...
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Large files get truncated at 4GB upon recovery
Started by jmorrey, Aug 20 2008 04:04 AM
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Posted 20 August 2008 - 06:03 AM
jmorrey, on Aug 20 2008, 12:04 AM, said:
I have (had?) the following large movie file:
[indent]Filename: alaska.avi
Path: J:\media\2004\alaskaCruise
Size: 13,928,792,064
State: Excellent
Creation time: 9/8/2007 15:57
Last modification time: 7/20/2004 23:28
Last access time: 11/26/2007 08:37
Comment: No overwritten clusters detected.
3400584 cluster(s) allocated at offset 38317930
[/indent]
Recuva found it during a deep scan of my external USB hard drive. I think the drive was accidentally quick formatted (that's just a guess though). When I try to recover the big file to another drive, Recuva writes out a file that's exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes) and stops. I have one other large file, and I get the same results. Exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes), no more. The source hard drive (the one I'm recovering from) is NTFS, 465GB, cluster size: 4096, file record size: 1024. The target hard drive (the one I'm recovering to) is FAT32 and has plenty of space. I had excellent results recovering everything else on the drive under 4GB in size... all 32,000+ files! So I'd like to believe/hope my big movie is still intact and I'm just hitting some simple issue. Any ideas?...
[indent]Filename: alaska.avi
Path: J:\media\2004\alaskaCruise
Size: 13,928,792,064
State: Excellent
Creation time: 9/8/2007 15:57
Last modification time: 7/20/2004 23:28
Last access time: 11/26/2007 08:37
Comment: No overwritten clusters detected.
3400584 cluster(s) allocated at offset 38317930
[/indent]
Recuva found it during a deep scan of my external USB hard drive. I think the drive was accidentally quick formatted (that's just a guess though). When I try to recover the big file to another drive, Recuva writes out a file that's exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes) and stops. I have one other large file, and I get the same results. Exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes), no more. The source hard drive (the one I'm recovering from) is NTFS, 465GB, cluster size: 4096, file record size: 1024. The target hard drive (the one I'm recovering to) is FAT32 and has plenty of space. I had excellent results recovering everything else on the drive under 4GB in size... all 32,000+ files! So I'd like to believe/hope my big movie is still intact and I'm just hitting some simple issue. Any ideas?...
I think you are going to have to restore that movie to a NTFS volume.
4 GB is the limit for FAT32 files.
Must be some movie !!!
Good luck,
davey
